Category: Greek
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Israel Fears Hezbollah More Than Hamas And This Is The Reason – The Ominous Forecast Of An Israeli Commander, early November 2023
This post is a straight translation from the Greek language internet news site, Newsbeast. The article was written by Panagiotis Flokis and carries a date of 10 November 2023. Israel is proclaiming that it “will cause Hamas to disappear from the face of the earth” after the bloody attack of October 7, however, its greatest…
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אבן העזר ואבן’ם לזכרון The Stone of Help and Stones of Remembrance: Bringing to Mind Yahwah’s Help and Goodness
Putting the Hebrew words first in the title is meant to illustrate how these two well-known phrases appear in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. As many of you who read this post will know, Hebrew writing goes from right to left, which means that אבן העזר is the Hebrew phrase translated as ‘stone…
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Dostoevsky and the [Russian Orthodox] Church
This is a translation, from the Russian, of a 3-part article by Vladimir Malyagin, an author and dramatist who serves on the publishing council of the Russian Orthodox Church. The reader is invited to engage in a critical review of the author’s commentary, remembering that it is the viewpoint of an apologist of Russian Orthodoxy,…
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“You have opened My ears” or “A body You have prepared for Me”: An Examination of Psalm 40:5-7 (LXX)/6-8 (Hebrew)
Psalm 40:6 ~ 6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear.[a]Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:8 I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.” Hebrews…
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One Holy Catholic Church – Not!
This post is the result of having just read two volumes that offer convincing arguments against the quasi-ecclesiastical organization (this nomenclature is mine and should not be attributed to the authors) called the Roman Catholic Church: A Primer On Roman Catholicism by John Gerstner; and, Evangelical Answers: A Critique of Current Roman Catholic Apologists by…
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Book Review: Melanchthon, The Quiet Reformer by Clyde Leonard Manschreck
Most of us who have an interest in the period of the Protestant Reformation have heard of Philip Melanchthon, but how many are aware that the surname Melanchthon is an ancient Greek translation, and a sort of cryptonym, for the German Schwarzterdt meaning ‘black earth,’ which was the surname with which he was born. [Note:…
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Book Review: Martin Luther – The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
While reading three biographies of William Tyndale, each of the authors made a point of mentioning that in the course of translating the same into English, Tyndale had made extensive use of Martin Luther’s German translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek. Since the Tyndale biographies’ focus centered on his love for…
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In Tense Atmosphere, German and Turkish Ministers of Foreign Affairs’ Discussion Reflects Turkiye’s Perception of Unfair Treatment by Greater European Community, late July 2022
This article was featured on the Greek language page of the internet news site, Euronews on July 29, 2022. Germany’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock was visiting the two neighboring countries of Greece and Turkey, which have conflicting interests in the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far as natural gas drilling rights are concerned,…
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Book Review: William Tyndale
by J. F. Mozley This is the last of a trilogy of biographies I have read on William Tyndale. There is afourth biography, written by Robert Demaus in 1886, which served as one of themain sources of the present volume, written by Mozley in 1934. I decided toread Mozley’s biography of Tyndale because just as…
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An Examination of Paul’s Teaching on the LORD’s Supper in I Corinthians 11:17-34
It occurred to me that over the years of worshipping in various denominations, I have been exposed to the LORD’s Supper being celebrated to differing degrees of significance. But for the most part, as I remember, there were few, if any, strictures placed on those taking Communion, perhaps the most common restriction being, to be…